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“Therese was propped up on one elbow. The milk was so hot, she could barely let her lip touch it at first. The tiny sips spread inside her mouth and released a melange of organic flavors. The milk seemed to taste of bone and blood, of warm flesh, or hair, saltless as chalk yet alive as a growing embryo. It was hot through and through to the bottom of the cup, and Therese drank it down, as people in fairy tales drink the potion that will transform, or the unsuspecting warrior the cup that will kill, Then Carol came and took the cup, and Therese was drowsily aware that Carol asked her three questions, on that had to do with happiness, one about the store and one about the future. Therese heard herself answering. She heard her voice rise suddenly in a babble, like a spring that she had no control over, and she realized she was in tears. She was telling Carol all that she feared and disliked, of her loneliness, of Richard, and of gigantic disappointments.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Many of Juan Diego's demons had been his childhood companions-he knew them so well, they were as familiar as friends.”
― John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“My angel," Carold said. "Flung out of space.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt